[pasabagi]

I mean, it's not a very interesting research topic? People who are poor and young commit certain categories of crime more often. That has nothing to do with immigration or race or whatever.

[curtisblaine]

It has everything to do with illegal immigration because illegal immigration is a constant influx of people that are within the "right" demographics for crime (young, male, less educated, less wealthy etc). If you change the demographics of a country to add poor young people every year, you get a higher incidence of crime by definition.

[dijit]

exactly and it’s fantastic that we have social sciences to prove that there is a correlation between poverty and crime.

otherwise, misrepresentations of issues (like the parents) would be over-represented publicly and not refuted.

(which is important, because tackling crime is only possible if you understand the actual causes themselves.)

[curtisblaine]

I mean, it is? It's the most divisive political topic at the moment and the reason why populisms are on the rise? If anything, I'd expect more and more detailed studies on that?

[pasabagi]

Trying to prove correlations between race and crime is literally the historical basis of criminology as a discipline. They failed, it's stupid, and now people know better.

You can commission as many studies as you like on astrology, and they'll all be meaningless.